Table 5.

Database query and filter actions.

Database	Query	Filters Applied
Science Direct	(“Autism” OR “Autism Spectrum Disorder” OR “ASD”) AND (“Augmented reality App” OR “AR”) AND (“Skills”) AND (“educate” OR “learn”)	✓Year: 2015–2020 ✓Article type: Research articles ✓Subject areas: Computer Science and Engineering ✓Without “*” ✓Use fewer Boolean connectors (max 8 per field)
	(“Autism” OR “Autism Spectrum Disorder” OR “ASD”) AND (“Serious games” OR “SG” OR “Serious games App”) AND (“Skills”) AND (“educate” OR “learn”)
	(“Autism” OR “Autism Spectrum Disorder” OR “ASD”) AND (“PECS” OR “Picture Exchange Communication System” OR “PECS App”) AND (“educate” OR “learn”)
Springer Link	(“Autism” OR “Autism Spectrum Disorder” OR “ASD”) AND (“Augmented reality” OR “Augmented Reality Therapy” OR “AR” OR “Rehabilitation with augmented reality” OR “ Augmented reality App*”) AND (“*Skills”) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*”)	✓Year: 2015–2020 ✓Article type: Articles ✓Language: English ✓Discipline: Computer Science
	(“Autism” OR “Autism Spectrum Disorder” OR “ASD”) AND (“Serious games” OR “Applied game” OR “SG” OR “Serious games App*”) AND (“*Skills”) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*”)
	(“Autism” OR “Autism spectrum disorder” OR “ASD”)AND (“PECS” OR “Picture Exchange Communication System” OR “PECS APP*”) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “train*” OR “gam*”)
Semantic Scholar	(“Autism*” OR “ASD”) AND (“Augmented reality” OR “Augmented reality App*”) AND (“*Skills”) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “gam*”)	✓Year: 2015–2020 ✓Article type: Journal Article and Conference ✓Subject areas: Computer Science and Engineering
	(“Autism*” OR “ASD) AND (“Serious games” OR “SG” OR “Serious games App*”) AND (“*Skills” ) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “train*”)
	(“Autism*” OR “ASD”) AND (“PECS” OR “Picture Exchange Communication System”) AND (“App*”) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “gam*”)
IEEE Explorer	(“Autism” OR “Autism spectrum disorder” OR “ASD” OR “Asperger syndrome” OR “Rett syndrome” OR “Childhood disintegrative disorder” OR “Pervasive Developmental Disorder–Not Otherwise Specified”) AND (“Augmented reality” OR “Augmented reality therapy” OR “AR” OR “Rehabilitation with augmented reality” OR “Augmented reality App*”) AND (“Social skills” OR “communication skills” OR “*Skills”)AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “train*” OR “gam*” OR “simulat*”)	✓Year: 2015–2020 ✓Article type: Journal and Conference
	(“Autism” OR “Autism spectrum disorder” OR “ASD”OR “Asperger syndrome” OR “Rett syndrome” OR “Childhood disintegrative disorder” OR “Pervasive Developmental Disorder–Not Otherwise Specified”) AND (“Serious games” OR “Applied game” OR “SG” OR “serious games App*”) AND (“Social skills” OR “communication skills” OR “*Skills”)AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “train*”OR “simulat*”)
	(“Autism” OR “Autism spectrum disorder” OR “ASD” OR “Asperger syndrome” OR “Rett syndrome” OR “Childhood disintegrative disorder” OR “Pervasive Developmental Disorder–Not Otherwise Specified”) AND (“PECS” OR “Picture Exchange Communication System” OR “PECS App*”) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “train*” OR “gam*”)
Google Scholar	(“Autism*” OR “ASD”) AND (“Augmented reality” OR “Augmented reality App*”) AND (“*Skills”) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “gam*”)	✓Year: 2015–2020 ✓Language: English
	(“Autism” OR “Autism spectrum disorder” OR “ASD” OR “Rett syndrome” OR “Childhood disintegrative disorder” OR “Pervasive Developmental Disorder–Not Otherwise Specified”) AND (“Serious games” OR “Applied game” OR “SG” OR “Mobile serious games”) AND (“Social skills” OR “communication skills” OR “*Skills”)AND (“educat*” OR “learn*” OR “train*”OR “simulat*”)
	(“Autism*” OR “ASD”) AND (“PECS” OR “Picture Exchange Communication System”) AND (“App*”) AND (“educat*” OR “learn*”OR “gam*”)